headstrong

[US]/ˈhedstrɒŋ/
[UK]/ˈhedstrɔːŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. willful, stubborn

Example Sentences

the headstrong impulsiveness of youth.

her friend was headstrong and impetuous.

He’s been willful and headstrong from a baby.

The trouble with her is that she is too headstrong.

The headstrong young couple entered into a marriage doomed to failure.

She’s hopelessly headstrong; she always gets up against people around her.

His headstrong daughter is destined to learn from her own mistakes. One who iswayward willfully and often perversely departs from what is desired, advised, expected, or required in order to gratify his or her own impulses or inclinations:

Real-world Examples

But maybe that's just me. I'm very headstrong.

Source: Time

Think you have a headstrong dog when you're out for a walk?

Source: Reader's Digest Anthology

There's always an interesting problem when you're working with animals that are independent thinkers and some kind of headstrong.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Or we might say you are headstrong.

Source: Learn speaking with Vanessa.

But what is so headstrong as youth?

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

Eliza, who was headstrong and selfish, was respected.

Source: Level 8 02. Jane Eyre

But I was so headstrong at that time that I paid no heed.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

People said she was headstrong, but really her weak brain left her cold.

Source: The places where angels dare not tread.

Finally he found out it was one headstrong student's classic.

Source: Pan Pan

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